Posted on 11/02/2016 6:26:36 AM PDT by Degaston
All of my health care policies since ObamaCare went into effect have been through Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Texas. Now their Information Technology (IT) services provider called Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) is offshoring key jobs to India and getting rid of American workers. Anyone who thinks that HCSC and BCBS are going to be careful about protecting our health care data from being exported outside the USA is like an ostrich with their heads in the sand. In the meantime Americans have to pay hefty fines (approx 2.5% of their income) if they don't buy this product where in this case their personal health care records can be so carelessly handled.
IT workers in the infrastructure team at Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) were notified recently of their layoff. They expect to be training replacements from India-based contractor HCL. The layoff affects more than 500 IT workers, according to the insurance firm.
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Off-shoring of IT jobs has been happening since way before Obamacare.
customer records in the hands of India....what could go wrong?
I used to have BCBS of Texas through the old employer I worked for. It is absolutely *&^%ing awful.
It was so bad that you had to pay 10% of any operation. Imagine what heart surgery would set you back?
I’m now working for another company and have WAY beyond a Cadillac health plan. Amusingly enough it’s through BCBS but of MA and I pay a very low $20 deductible for any surgery.
Yes, but the point is that in this case Americans are being forced to buy products (or pay hefty fines) from companies that are haphazardly sending their sensitive data overseas. Now that we have more sophisticated imagery capabilities for mammograms, pap smears, etc. and the digitalization of health care records happening en masse in concert with IT outsourcing and very loose standards generally on data management, we have this very serious risk being forced upon people. I don’t say this lightly as I have worked over 20+ years as an IT Solutions Architect. When push comes to shove the enterprises that buy IT services do cut plenty of corners on security.
Not only that, it has nothing to do with “ObamaCare”. I know we all hate it, and it’s a fun tag to toss around, but all of this is down to private health insurance companies, not Obama.
I’m on BC/BS of Texas. Recently I was informed that I could no longer get my well woman exams from my ob/gyn, only the nurse practitioner could do them. Then just yesterday I got a letter about prescriptions. There was a long list of meds they will no longer pay for or will only pay minimally. There was also a list of acceptable pharmacies, the small town family owned pharmacy that I’ve been using for years was not on the list. CVS was on the list, but not the one closest to me.
I’ve never had problems with BC/BS until now and I’ve been using them for a lifetime.
This Obamacare debacle is doubtless choking them down.
It’s that 20% cap on administrative expenses that was forced on insurers by Obamacare. They had to cut quickly to get down to that number. Massive offshoring was the result.
As long as people are forced to buy a product (or pay a hefty tax fine) then it is relevant. If people weren’t required to buy a PPACA product then yes I would agree with you.
Why not offshore Obama to India?
They won’t even have to hack computers to get personal info and commit mass identity theft.
Just like all the manufacturing, industrial jobs. Governmental largess and strangling regulations have made it necessary for these business’ to seek more inexpensive ways of doing things to stay in business and make a profit.
The fact that Obama orchestrated and is enforcing exposing your private health records and our entire medical industry (1/6 of the U.S. economy) to un-vetted foreigners should be criminal.
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HCSC isn’t subject to any expense caps.
Con’t wotty- in less than 6 months, India will have a surge in unemployment-—as Trump stops Obamacare in it’s tracks.
What are the onerous IT regulations forcing offshoring of these jobs? And if your answer involves privacy regulations, go sit in the corner.
Competition might have a little bit to do with it as well...
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